Was it coincidence that geology offered a revolutionary way of looking at the earth at the same time that British and French societies were agitating for political reform? Both early nineteenth-century upheavals were stirred, as Martin Rudwick shows, by the burgeoning press. In Britain the growing network of railways carried newspapers (fed by the electric telegraph), scientific periodicals and books the length of the land. The new reading public showed a remarkable appetite for science.

Literary Review

Oct 2008

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Brenda Maddox

I Ate All the Chocolates

Fallen from the Trees

For Love or Money

The Woman Behind the Wheel

He Promised Her the Nobel Prize

Better When Young

No One Saw Him Paint

The Adjunct’s Tale

Yeats The Protestant

Of Rears And Vices

Awful Apparatus

In A Word: My Wife

Coming of Age in White City

The Columbus of Politics

A Claim Too Far

Ypres On The Liffey

She Sold Seashells

Smoke Gets In Your Eyes

Infinite Mischief

No To Nostalgia

Books Maketh the Man

The Wizards of Id

On the Stein Trail

The Pernicious Editor